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Thursday, September 6, 2012

The winner of the cookbook is...Linda Wildenstein, who said... "I would love to be entered in this wonderful giveaway. The Grands love them some dessert....so keeping my fingers crossed. Oma Linda"Congratulations Linda!! Email me at mary@deepsouthdish.com with your mailing address before 12:00 noon CST on Wednesday, Sept. 12th, 2012 to claim your cookbook!

Thanks for entering everybody! Be sure to visit regularly or subscribe by email to be notified about all future drawings for more great cookbooks. In the meantime, if you'd like to purchase Southern Living Classic Southern Desserts cookbook online, click right here to buy it at Amazon!

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As hot as it was this summer, and as much as people had sworn off their stoves, much less their ovens, I noticed across the interwebs that there was one outstanding exception. Desserts.

Share a supper recipe on Facebook in the midst of the summer heat, even one that required only a quick pass in the oven and people moaned about the thought of turning on an oven, but share a delectable dessert that had to bake an hour and it's Facebook Shares Go Wild!

Southerners overwhelmingly love their desserts, no matter the temperature outside, and we're clearly willing to turn on our ovens on a hot summer day to satisfy that sweet tooth. Was this you? Well, Southern Living has just the cookbook for you!

Southern Living has been a trusted source for recipes for years, and they have been digging through and reworking their extensive 45 years of recipe archives, to round up some of their best, introducing some impressive cookbooks the past few years.

Oh my gosh, how can you not love having all of these luscious, favorite southern desserts, all in one beautiful book?

Beside the multitude of recipes, included in this cookbook are chapter lead-ins that tell a bit of the back stories behind some of the recipes, there are tip boxes scattered throughout and an end chapter guide with tips for successful baking, all from the test kitchen experts at Southern Living.

Available right now with the click of a mouse from your favorite online bookstores like Amazon and at major book retailers everywhere, this is one cookbook you are sure to enjoy adding to your own personal collection, as well as for gift giving for upcoming birthdays, along with a basket of baking goodies for new brides, or as Christmas gifts for some of your favorite people.

The publisher has generously offered to share one copy with a Deep South Dish reader too! Simply comment below to enter for a chance to win a copy of your own! Thanks for reading and good luck!

The Rules: This giveaway closes on Sunday, September 9, 2012 at midnight CST. One winner will be selected at random and will be announced on the site at this post on Monday. You will have 48 hours to respond to claim the cookbook. Giveaway open to United States residents only please.

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What a great giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win this cookbook! I am always looking for southern recipes to my favorite desserts. My grandmother's recipe box is so worn I can barely read most of them. Thanks!

My sisters and I love to cook together! We have made several desserts from Southern Living Magazine..would love to have this cookbook. The last big recipe we tackled was the German Chocolate Cake that was featured in the Southern Living magazine in the latter part of 2011. It was beautiful and delicious! Love your website..have tried several recipes from here as well. :)

I would love to win this cookbook! As others have posted here I love collecting and reading cookbooks and Southern Living is among my favorites. I have many of the annuals and would love to have this one focused on Southern Desserts. The lemon tea bread looks scrumptious...I LOVE LEMON!!

Since I'm a northerner living in the south (and loving every minute of it) I would love to have this cookbook! I'm sure there are recipes for desserts I never heard of but would love to prepare for my family, especially with the holidays right around the corner!!

I have a previous edition of this cookbook - it is one of my favorite cookbooks to pull dessert offerings from. The absolute very best Red Velvet cake recipe is in this cookbook. It's a hit each & every time I make it. I would LOVE to be able to give a copy to my sister-in-law!

I too love Southern Living cookbooks.I have never made a recipe of their's that wasn't delicious andenjoyed by family and friends. My daughter loves to make desserts and this would be a fantastic source for southern desserts that have been favorites for generations.

I love the simple recipes in this. While having a fancy dessert is good for special occasions, sometimes you just want some peach cobbler. This cookbook gives you the best of both. Would love to own this.

The new Southern Living Dessert Cookbook would share a proud space in my kitchen. Being a southern girl, all my memories worth having involve food, but especially southern homecooked food and the very best of the south would be the desserts. How I would love to have this treasure trove of recipes. This is what the South is all about...honest ingredients, flavorful, tongue tickling, and soul comforting. This book would be my most treasured cookbook in my collection. Please...let it be me???!!!

Oh, wow! Another new cookbook! Can anyone ever have too many? They make such interesting reading whether it's the memory of old favorite recipes or seeing how recipes are constantly evolving with new trends. Bring it on!

I neeeeeeed this cookbook, my husband is from the south, my mother-n-law lives 2 blocks away, and we have an unspoken competition in the kitchen trying to "1 up" each other with awesome recipes that the other hasn't made, or hasn't mastered. I am ahead in the competition, but need this cookbook to ensure that I remain there. Please, I need a great southern dessert cookbook, please.

Hey Mary, I am the one who asked the other day about following you by email, and boy am I so glad you got back with me so quick, or I might have missed the chance to win this great book!!!! I would love to win this, it is true , if you can't find a dessert to fix in this book, you won't find one any where!

I would love to win this cookbook. I love to peruse cookbooks (my collection is more like an obsession)and love southern recipes.

My Father always said if you want to learn to cook with great food, look for an "old church cookbook" because those women can really cook. I realize this may not be "an old church cookbook" but the recipes are of the same quality.

My husband and I collect cookbooks and will buy one for just one special recipe. This looks like it would be a nice addition to our collection. Bet we could find more than one recipe to make in this one too.

Mary, this sounds like such a fabulous collection of Southern favorite desserts; and, of course, "Southern Living" never fails to disappoint with their publications! I would love to add this cookbook to my collection! Thanks for this giveaway!

Oh Thank You...Thank You! I can always count on you for some of the most delicious recipes! I absolutely LOVE to do Desserts! I love to bake & this sounds like the Cook Book to Have! I would love to add this one to my collection!

Southern Living cookbooks are the best and I have quite a collection of them -- something my grandma got me into back in the mid-80's. She's since passed on but my SL cookbooks always remind me of her and our cooking adventures together.

I would love to have this cookbook. I have a subscription to their magazine and recently made 3 desserts from them. They turned out great. I would love to have more of their recipes and you bet I would use them. Thanks

What a wonderful give-a-way! When I think of Southern deserts I think of my mother's red velvet cake. Whenever someone in our small rural area passed away, mother would make a red velvet cake and fried chicken to take to the bereaved family. I would love to own a copy of this cookbook.

I don't know if this recipe is in this book, but I have made the Caramel Cream Cake, a Southern Living recipe, and it is fantastic! I'd love to win this book for some more ideas.Digicats {at} Sbcglobal {dot} Net

I was raised in the Texas but moved to Montana in my early 20's. This site lets me share my southern roots and tastes with my co-workers and friends. It amazing how many I've "Southernized" with recipes from your site! Once a southerner, always a southerner. Can't wait to see this cookbook because you can never have too many cookbooks and I've never tried a recipe from here that wasn't awesome. Keep up the good work of keeping us all hungry.

Well Ms. Mary, I have a love for cooking, but baking is most definitely my favorite thing to do in the kitchen. This is a great giveaway, and I would love to win. They picked the right person to supply a cookbook to giveaway. And glad to hear you're alright after this recent stint of bad weather. Have a great weekend!

I bet I could stock a library just with cookbooks all by myself! Can't quit collecting 'em!! And dessertcookbooks certainly could fill a room all by themselves. Would love to have this new one from Southern Living. Love your blog & all the great recipes ~

Recently discovered your website and have really enjoyed trying the recipes. Dinner guests and church potluck attendees keep asking me where I found the recipes after they eat and I tell them about Deep South Dish! Thanks so much!I don't have the Southern Living cookbook, but I am sure I would love it.

Southern Living?? Wow! How generous of you and the publisher. I too am a collector of cookbooks. This would be a wonderful addition to my collection, seeing as I live in the upper south. Love your site!

My friends say I'm nuts when I tell them I need a new cookbook I see. But they love for me to fix things for them out of those cookbooks. My husband says I have to stop the bookcases won't hold any more.lol time for a new bookcase! would love to add this one to my collection!

Have been collecting Southern (and especially Southern Living) cookbooks for over 50 years. My first stop on the Internet when seeking a particular recipe is Southern Living. Their tried and true recipes have never let me down. Thanks Deep South Recipe site for this opportunity.wellsbj@knology.net

As a newly wed bride,I would so love to win so that I can put the book to good use in making desserts for my husband and his family members since right now I make terrible desserts that are either too hard,not moist enough or over bake them(they are sometimes hard like baseballs lol).

I love Southern Living cookbooks, especially the Christmas one where I made Mamie's Fudge. It has been made during the Christmas holidays for years and it's a hit with the family. Please include my name in the contest; I would love to bake more goodies out of this cookbook.

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